Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body. Says he: "You have to know the gesture you want, and then there's always the question of whether the human being can hold that gesture for the 20 minutes it takes the plaster to dry." The result is that artificial postures disappear, and his models slump into poses that are brutally natural. "People have attitudes locked up in their bodies, and you have to catch them...
...into success. A virago of a woman five years older than her "Wurr'n," she was the one driving masculine principle in her husband's life-the force that thrust him upward out of the comfortable country editor's chair in which Harding liked to slump in a "digestive trance" after lunch...
...down, I lost 850-900 stores, out of 1400. And then of course the people moved away also. Where they went, I don't know, I couldn't find any of them. They just vanished.... They started moving out in 1961, 1962. In 1963 I began to feel the slump. Every week a store closed, five stores, eight stores, 20 stores. One fellow came back after delivering his route, came back in about an hour. I said, how many stores you have left? He said about 20. He had had 125. Another fellow, the same thing. All of them...
From then on, the mood palpably changed. When a poll on Oct. 10 showed that Humphrey was clambering back from his post-convention slump, money began to flow in and Humphrey was able to spend some $12 million altogether. He spent $3,000,000 in the last week alone, most of it on TV. The deeply divided Democratic Party began to show signs of belated unity. Humphrey wound up his campaign odyssey of more than 98,000 miles amid laughter, with a triumphant Los Angeles parade and a four-hour telethon with Edmund Muskie. Humphrey flew home to Waverly, Minn...
Junior Erik "Elf" Roth was out with the leaders early and survived a midrace slump to remain in good position. Close behind were John Heyburn and Howie Foye. Heyburn has never been sidelined by injury in two years of running, and a wasp sting that swelled his hand painfully did not stop him Saturday...